[PDF] Top 20 Enhancing the representation of subgrid land surface characteristics in land surface models

... than in the inland region such as the Great Plains (1–2 PFTs at ...dominates the landscape. Increasing model grid size results in greater subgrid-scale variability of PFTs ... See full document

... balance of the terrestrial biosphere in the twentieth century: analyses of CO 2 , climate and land use effects with four process-based ecosystem models, Global ... See full document

... projections of human-caused changes in the Earth ...at the land surface come into play in this context, be- cause many compounds that either act as greenhouse gases, as ... See full document

... upscaling of land surface parameters in this study re- lates to the physical description of energy and water bal- ance at the land surface according to ... See full document

... to the lack of knowledge regarding the specific characteristics of the land-sur- face process in semi-arid regions, limited near-surface observational ... See full document

... Baseline characteristics of climate, permafrost and land cover from a new permafrost observatory in the Lena River Delta, Siberia (1998–2011), Biogeosciences, 10, 2105–2128, ... See full document

... is the goal, then model param- eters are adjusted so that the model state(s) come into closer agreement with the ...Following the optimization of model parameters (defined here loosely ... See full document

... consists of (1) a cloud-resolving model (CRM), (2) a regional-scale model, the NASA unified Weather Research and Forecast- ing Model (WRF), and (3) a coupled CRM-GCM (general circulation model, known as ... See full document

... rate of 6.5 Kkm −1 , considering the elevation differences between the model grids and the DY ...However, the altitudinal effect on rela- tive humidity was assumed ...At the ... See full document

... that model parametrization and process specifications controlling primary production may require further refinement. Other recent work supports our findings and also sug- gests a closer examination of ... See full document

... exam the results. The first stage (S1) was the pre-fire treatment that involved from February 2014 to 16 April 2014 that was marked as the end of the rainy season, in ... See full document

... understand the relationship between Land Surface Temperature (LST), Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) and the patterns of land use in the municipality ... See full document

... way of assessing temperature simultaneously across a wide surface area and acquiring a synoptic view of a study area is by using remote sensing ...away of capturing data related to land ... See full document

... Abstract. Land surface models (LSMs) need to be able to simulate realistically the dynamics of permafrost and frozen ...ground. In this paper we evaluate the performance ... See full document

... catchments in the domain. In order to overcome this, Dadson et ...for the PDM b parameter from soil depth data for Europe, where values for b ... See full document

... ECHAM5-JSBACH the same land hydrology model is used as in ECHAM5. The model comprises three surface wa- ter reservoirs: a snow layer (sn), water at the skin layer of ... See full document

... sensitivity of the observations to clouds as well as to aerosols in the atmospheric column, with severe impact especially in the regions that are particularly productive ... See full document

... series of MERIS MTCI data was used to esti- mate both the onset of greenness (OG) and end of senes- cence (EOS) from 2003 to ...years of data (from October in the previous ... See full document

... for the North American Land Data Assimilation System Project Phase 2 (NLDAS-2), Part 1: Compari- son Analysis and Application of Model Products, ... See full document

... mosaic of 12 land covers or patches. The ISBA-A-gs LSM provides a detailed computation of the surface fluxes of energy, water and carbon at the sub-grid (patch) ... See full document